I’ve known for the past couple months that page load times on my site have been slowing down.
I don’t know if it’s because of the traffic, the number of pages on the site (about 400 now), or just crappy hosting.
Yesterday was TERRIBLE. It was taking 2-4 minutes for my site to pull up in my browser. That lasted all morning. Then around lunch time, the site stopped loading altogether. I kept getting 500 Internal Server Errors.
Extremely frustrating.
So I contacted GoDaddy’s support because this particular site is on GoDaddy hosting. (I have other hosting accounts with DreamHost, HostGator, and LiquidWeb.)
Their response was not helpful: “During our review of your account, we did not see any issue with the operational status of your hosting account and your site appears to be setup and accessible without issue.”
But even Alexa knows there’s a problem with my site. Check it out:
Alexa says the average load time for RyanHealy.com is “Very Slow,” 3.182 seconds to be exact. GoDaddy says nothing is wrong.
Hmmm… methinks it’s time to move to a different hosting account.
-Ryan M. Healy
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About Ryan M. Healy
Ryan Healy is a direct response copywriter. Since 2002, he has worked with scores of clients, including BoostCTR, Alex Mandossian, Terry Dean, and Pulte Homes. He writes a popular blog about copywriting, advertising, and business growth, has been featured in publications like Feed Front magazine, and is a regular contributor to WordStream.com, BoostCTR.com, and MarketingForSuccess.com.
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I agree Ryan, it’s a shame that GoDaddy couldn’t own up to it, or at the very least, even if it wasn’t their fault…help you out as a paying customer (what a novel concept eh?).
Ryan,
The answer you posted is a typical canned answer from the GoDaddy CSR team.
GoDaddy is not a hosting company. Real hosting companies don’t market their services at the SuperBowl using practically naked women.
If you think you can do it without too much trouble, get away from GoDaddy. They stack their servers to maximum capacity before moving on to new ones.
But whatever you do, steer very, very clear of LimeDomains or you’ll be in for more of the same in terms of customer service.
Yeah, GoDaddy is good for domain reg, but not hosting. I started using them 3+ years before their Superbowl nonsense, and I’ve never had enough incentive to switch. I’ll probably keep my domains there, just switch hosting on a few sites.
Yeah, GoDaddy is good for domain reg, but not hosting. I started using them 3+ years before their Superbowl nonsense, and I’ve never had enough incentive to switch. I’ll probably keep my domains there, just switch hosting on a few sites.
Yeah, GoDaddy is good for domain reg, but not hosting. I started using them 3+ years before their Superbowl nonsense, and I’ve never had enough incentive to switch. I’ll probably keep my domains there, just switch hosting on a few sites.
Yeah, GoDaddy is good for domain reg, but not hosting. I started using them 3+ years before their Superbowl nonsense, and I’ve never had enough incentive to switch. I’ll probably keep my domains there, just switch hosting on a few sites.
Ryan, your should expect your blog to boost its traffic and rankings if you do anything seo related and expect more people visit more often.
I’d look into dedicated or at least virtual (private) servers for $25+ per month you could add more RAM memory to your blog. That’s what I do and have a lot less issues.
I also use a WP cache plugin that helps to reduce blog load, look out for “W3 Total Cache” on wordpress/google. All the other cache plugins I tested were pretty hard to understand/manage, not this one :)
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently using WP Super Cache.
RyanHealy.com is now running on a new Host Monster hosting account. Load times are noticeably faster.
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